deviationist

A deviationist is a person who expresses a deviation: an abnormality or departure.

He was denounced as a "rightist deviationist" in 1957 during the "Hundred Flowers" campaign, forbidden to teach and stripped of important posts.

In retirement, Molotov criticised Nikita Khrushchev for being a "right-wing deviationist".

During the Great Purge he was expelled from the Comintern in 1938 as a "bourgeois deviationist" and a death sentence was announced against him.

The other Politburo members sided with Stalin, and labelled Bukharin a "Right Deviationist" from Marxist-Leninist principles.

In 1952, he was arrested and charged with being one in Luca's "right-wing deviationist", stripped of all positions (including membership of the Great National Assembly), and incarcerated.

Three years ago Ms. Larina was summoned to the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, the temple of Communist orthodoxy that had long condemned her husband as a "right-wing deviationist."

The Kharkov congress, attended by Aragon and Sadoul, was the occasion for public condemnation of the "right-wing deviationist" editorial policy pursued by Barbusse in Monde.

In Poland, the surge was met by the appointment of Wladyslaw Gomulka, a man who eight years earlier had been suspended from the party and jailed on Stalin's orders as "a rightist nationalist deviationist."

As a result, Tsintsadze was denounced as a "national deviationist" and removed from his posts later that year, being replaced by E. A. Kvantaliani, who was more compliant with the centralizers' policy.

In 1931, in the name of sectarian orthodoxy, Nizan challenged the heretical Barbusse, sought to wrest the editorial control of Monde from the hands of this unrepentant "right-wing deviationist", and came away the loser.